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@ R. triste par WES $84. CUrEER to creeping and rooting at the nodes, the 
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ranches ascending, 50-50 cm. tall, branchlets green, glabrous; buds 25 ' te 9% a 
long, obtuse, pressed to the stem; petioles 4-6 Ci. long, wearly glabrous, bear- a 
ing a few long hairs 2-4 mm. longy near the somewhat expanded base; blades cor- © 
date-reniform, deeply cordate at the base the lower lobes rounded, 6-15 cm. broad; 
3-(5)-lobed, the lobes obtuse, or acutish, the middle lobes divergent, the margins 
serrate, the teeth ovate, but apiculate, giving a sharp appearance to the serra- 
tions as a whole, sparingly ciliolate, both surfaces green and glabrous, dull, 
not glandular; racemes drooping, 5-4 cm. long, 7-9 flowered, minutely crispulous., 
pearing a few sessile resin dots, otherwise not glandular, bracts ovate, 1-2 m. | 
long, green, glabrous; calyx tube scarcely 2 mm. in diameter, shallowly cupeo 4 
shaped, glabrous, the lobes thin, green and purple, somewhat fan-shaped, 2.5 mm. | 
in diameters tee petals purple, obovate 57 mn. long; stamens seated on the edge 
of the tube, shorter than the erect petals, anthers white, notched, the filaments’ 
purple, twice the length of the anthers; styles purple, .8 mn. long, joined and 
thickened at the base; fruit glabrous, bright red, 6-8 mm. in diameter. 
Growing in shade along Twin Creeks, Little North Fork of Clearwater River, 
4500 ft., associated with Ribes lacustre and R. petiolare, Putnam and Riley. 
Spokane Meadow, Hpling and Kempf. Foliage may be distinguished from that of 
Be petiolare by the long hairs at the base of the petioles. 
Garden Currante 
Re. sativum syme. A Rarely occurs near habitations as an escape, It my 
be distinguished by the softly hairy, not glandular leaves, the ,reenish, none 
glandular flowers and bright red fruit. 
